LEWIS

v.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Meynardo Montemayor and Manuel Montemayor, 703 F.2d 109 (5th Cir. 1983)
  …would be whether the lack of the vacuumed material requires reversal because it would have been likely to change the verdict. United States v. Gordon, 580 F. 2d 827, 837 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 1051, 99 S.Ct. 731, 58 L.Ed.2d 711 (1978) & 439 U.S. 1079, 99 S.Ct. 860, 59 L.Ed.2d 49 (1979). An important factor to consider in resolving this issue is whether the evidence was crucial to a determination of the guilt or innocence of the accused. Id. In the instant case, the judge dismissed all the subs…
• United States v. Drake, 673 F.2d 15 (1st Cir. 1982)
  …42 (1980), 449 U.S. 1084, 101 S.Ct. 870, 66 L.Ed.2d 808 (1981); United States v. Park, 531 F. 2d 754 (5th Cir. 1976); United States v. Gordon, 580 F. 2d 827 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 1051, 99 S.Ct. 731, 58 L.Ed.2d 711 (1978); Cowen v. U.S., 439 U.S. 1079, 99 S.Ct. 860, 59 L.Ed.2d 49 (1978); United States v. Martin, 509 F. 2d 1211 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 421 U.S. 967, 95 S.Ct. 1958, 44 L.Ed.2d 455 (1975); United States v. Smith, 499 F. 2d 251 (7th Cir. 1974); United States v. Welebir, 498 F. 2d 346…
• United States v. Nabors, 707 F.2d 1294 (11th Cir. 1983)
  …the preservation of the evidence, it clearly did not act “for the purpose of inflicting a disadvantage upon the defendant[ ],” United States v. Gordon, 580 F. 2d 827, 837 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 1051, 99 S.Ct. 731, 58 L.Ed.2d 711 (1978), 439 U.S. 1079, 99 S.Ct. 860, 59 L.Ed.2d 49 (1979), or as part of a policy of “systematic non-preservation” of evidence, United States v. Bryant, 439 F. 2d at 652. The government agents knew the law and acted accordingly. Thus exclusion is not necessary to sanctio…